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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill · 1982

Marlene, a Thatcher-era career woman, hosts a dinner party with famous women from history and legend. Then Churchill pulls the rug out and shows what Marlene left behind. The first act is a dazzling theatrical conceit; the last act is a gutting family drama. Churchill asked whether female success under capitalism was anything more than women learning to behave like the worst men.

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